Design Desk Computer Lab
is located in the
JHU Gilchrest Building
Montgomery County
Rockville, Maryland
(also referred to as the
Gaithersburg area)
Only five students per workshop
Choose either a Mac or PC
2-Day Workshop Cost: $329 per day
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
See our Calendar for a schedule of all Design Desk workshops throughout the entire year.
Design Desk
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Design Desk
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Information compiled and updated by Design Desk on 01/10/10.
Design Desk two-day Adobe Photoshop CS4 for web graphics workshop is offered once a month and is tailored for the web graphics artist who creates images for the web. In class you will learn how to create, enhance, improve, and alter your web graphics using Adobe Photoshop CS4. Design Desk uses only Adobe certified instructors.
Techniques covered will include creating photo montages, transparent gifs, web backgrounds, banners, customized buttons, navigational bars, rollovers, image maps, slices and simple animations. Student class book is Adobe Photoshop CS4 Classroom in a Book by Adobe Press.
Areas of Concentration Include:
- Producing effective banners and navigational bars
- Making buttons and rollovers
- Vignetting or dissolving edges on images
- Saving and optimizing images properly
- Slicing an image and saving the HTML code
- Combining images into a photo montage
- Creating transparent backgrounds
- Scanning an image for the web
- Stylizing type
- Scaling and sharpening images
- Automating repeated tasks
- Producing motion and simple animation